The iTampon? Waste of money, IMO. For $299 you can get a netbook with 160GB, a real keyboard, a (slightly) larger screen, and the ability to load Lightroom or another RAW file viewing app. The iPad is a bit smaller a lighter, and with the more expensive models gives you the capability to connect to a cell phone network that is often glacially slow due to all the iPhone users downloading video. Imagine my thrill!
" I have heard these voices before. In June 2007 when the iPhone was launched I collected a long list of "not impressed", "meh", "big deal", "style over substance", "it's all hype", "my HTC TyTN can do more", "what a disappointment", "majorly underwhelmed" and similar reactions. ... Even if it had proved a commercial and business disaster instead of an astounding success, iPhone would remain the most significant release of its generation because of its effect on the smartphone habitat. Does anybody seriously believe that Google, Nokia, Samsung, Palm, BlackBerry and a dozen others would since have produced the product line they have without the 100,000-volt Taser shot up the jacksie that the iPhone delivered to the entire market?
Nonetheless, even if they couldn't see that three billion apps would be downloaded in two years (that's half a million app downloads a day, give or take) could they not see that this device was gorgeous, beautifully made, very powerful and capable of development into something extraordinary? I see those qualities in the iPad. "
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/...-fry-apple-ipad